DAIRY PRODUCE.

Southland Times, Issue 14512, 13 December 1900, Page 2

DAIRY PRODUCE.

The exhibit? in this section were of the general high ([uaiity which marked the whole. The cheese classes were much better filled than in former years. In the class for new there wore ten entries, Stirling Dairy Factory taking the two awards. The same factory repeated this performance id the class for old cheeso ly taking bot.h awards. The butter stage wjis fairly filled with a display of butter which it would he difficult to equal. There wjis not an inferior exhibit amongst the lot. The catalogue was filled almost exclusively with names already famous in this department. There was ovU one exhibit of fanny butter — that of Misa Hamilton, for which she deservedly received first award — and before the middle of the afternoon it was a molten mass — actually dripping to the table beneath. In the tomainder of the butter classes the phenomenal success of the Misses Drain wiw, a marked feature With the etfCebfcidn of the powdered Imtter class, where the positions were reversed, Miss Brain takes the pink tickets and Miss Mary Drain the second awards. This speaks volumes for the skill of the Drain family as butter-makers and is excellent proof of the skill and consistency of the judge, Mr Andrew Maefarlane, Duqedin, that he succeeded .in adhering to the same exhibitors' productions throughout. In hama Mr A N, Lindsay scooped the pool, although honours were easy. The quality was all that could be desired.